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Will embedding photos in blog posts save on resource usage?

by ahounddog
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Hello everyone. On my site, if I use embedded photos or videos (like from imgur or Youtube, or an embedded Facebook or Twitter post) instead of actually uploading them, will that reduce my resource usage on my hosting plan? My traffic is spiky and I want to make my site as lean as I can to minimize the chance of my site going down.
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  • Profile picture of the author Sid Hale
    Hey Hound Dog,

    Images, videos, and audios are all rendered to the browser by making a separate http request from the browser to the server where the resource resides. All that ever actually exists inside your html page is the URL to that external resource.

    The browser, on encountering an external resource request (a URL) immediately fires off a parallel request for that resource, while your page is still loading.

    Now the question becomes...
    Is it more efficient to have those external requests served by your own server, or someone else's server.

    By requesting a resource from a different server (i.e. Youtube, Amazon S3, Facebook, etc.) you not only don't have to use server disk space for stroage of that resource, but your server also does not incur the additional bandwidth usage for the actual download process.

    All that simply to say, "Yes"
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